The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary

The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
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Title: The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
Author: Anne Warner
Release Date: May 2005 [EBook #15775]
Language: American English
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REJUVENATION OF AUNT MARY***

The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
By Anne Warner
Author of "A Woman's Will," "Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs.

Lathrop," "Susan Clegg and a Man in the House," etc.
NEW EDITION With Additional Pictures from the Play
Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1910

Copyright, 1904, By Ainslee Magazine Company.
Copyright, 1905, By Little, Brown, and Company.
Copyright, 1907, By Little, Brown, and Company,
All rights reserved
Fourteenth Printing
Printers S.J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U.S.A.

[Image: Frontispiece]
Aunt Mary en Fête. May Robson as "Aunt Mary."

Books by Anne Warner A Woman's Will 1904 Susan Clegg and Her
1904 Friend Mrs. Lathrop The Rejuvenation of Aunt 1905 Mary Susan
Clegg and Her 1906 Neighbor's Affairs Susan Clegg and a Man in 1907
the House An Original Gentleman 1908 In a Mysterious Way 1909
Your Child and Mine 1909

Contents
Contents Illustrations
Chapter One

- Introducing Aunt Mary
Chapter Two
- Jack
Chapter Three
- Introducing Jack
Chapter Four
- Married
Chapter Five
- The Day After Falling in Love
Chapter Six
- The Other Man
Chapter Seven
- Developments
Chapter Eight
- The Resolution He Took
Chapter Nine
- The Downfall of Hope
Chapter Ten
- The Woes of the Disinherited.

Chapter Eleven
- The Dove of Peace
Chapter Twelve
- A Trap For Aunt Mary
Chapter Thirteen
- Aunt Mary Entrapped
Chapter Fourteen
- Aunt Mary En Fête
Chapter Fifteen
- Aunt Mary Enthralled
Chapter Sixteen
- A Reposeful Interval
Chapter Seventeen
- Aunt Mary's Night About Town
Chapter Eighteen
- A Departure And A Return
Chapter Nineteen
- Aunt Mary's Return
Chapter Twenty

- Jack's Joy
Chapter Twenty
-One - The Peace and Quiet of the Country
Chapter Twenty
-Two - "Granite"
Chapter Twenty
-Three - "Granite" - Continued.
Chapter Twenty
-Four - Two Are Company
Chapter Twenty
-Five - Grand Finale Credits A Word from Project Gutenberg The Full
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Illustrations
"Aunt Mary en fête" (May Robson as "Aunt Mary") Frontispiece
"'Do not let us play any longer,' she said. 'Let us be in earnest'"
"'She's goin' to the city all alone!' Lucinda's voice suddenly proclaimed
behind him"
Aunt Mary and Her Escorts
"The carriage stopped three hundred feet below the level of a
roof-garden"

"And now the fun's all over and the work begins"
"'Yesterday I played poker until I didn't know a blue chip from a white
one'"
"Aunt Mary had also had her eyes open"

The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
Chapter One
- Introducing Aunt Mary
The first time that Jack was threatened with expulsion from college his
Aunt Mary was much surprised and decidedly vexed--mainly at the
college. His family were less surprised, viewing the young man through
a clearer atmosphere than his Aunt Mary ever had, and knowing that he
had barely escaped similar experiences earlier in his career by
invariably leaving school the day before the board of inquiry convened.
Jack's preparatory days having been more or less tempestous, his
family (Aunt Mary excepted) had expected some sort of after-clap
when he entered college. Nevertheless, they had fervently hoped that it
would not be quite as bad as this.
Jack's sister Arethusa was visiting her aunt when the news came. Not
because she wanted to, for the old lady was dreadfully deaf and
fearfully arbitrary, but because Lucinda had said that she must go to her
cousin's wedding, and the family always had to bow to Lucinda's
mandates. Lucinda was Aunt Mary's maid, but she had become so
indispensable as a sitter at the off-end of the latter's ear-trumpet that
none of the grand-nephews or grand-nieces ever thought for an instant
of crossing one of her wishes. So it was to Arethusa that the
explanations due Aunt Mary's interest in her scapegrace fell, and she
bowed her back to the burden with the resignation which the
circumstances demanded.

"Whatever is the difference between bein' expelled and bein'
suspended?" Aunt Mary demanded, in her tone of imperious impatience.
"Well, why don't you answer? I was brought up to speak when you're
spoken to, an' I'm a great believer in livin' up to your bringin' up--if you
had a good one. What's the difference, an' which costs most? That's
what I